Section 129: Fierce battle at the bridge
The tall and large body of the person with the strong physique cultivated by many years of handling. In the face of these defender soldiers, who were of good height, but with their bare limbs and slender limbs, and their sloppy standing posture and a lazy ruffian atmosphere, Galeva made the first mistake.
It was a mistake in judgment and he felt he could beat the other side.
Young, tall and powerful men often have this delusion. Under the influence of self-confidence in their own strength and vanity, they tend to overestimate themselves and underestimate their enemies.
His shallow, unwarranted self-confidence came from his own brute strength and a little experience in brawls due to his youthful vigor. But weapon combat is not like boxing, and it is not won by brute force and resistance.
No matter how tall or strong, if you are cut by a sharp object, you will bleed and weaken.
He has no reasonable combat perception and no correct judgment on the threat of weapons and the strength of friend or foe.
This is the foundation of any combat professional, and if you don't have a clear enough understanding of the lethality of various weapons and a sense of awe, then the battles that could have been won will end up lying in a pool of your own blood.
Physique and brute strength don't mean everything in a fight, a strong man with bare hands and a little girl with a sharp knife will always think that the former wins, but if the combat experience of both sides is equal, the winning rate is only four or six.
Strong man 4, little girl 6.
This was the first mistake Galeva made, and his second mistake was inseparable from Henry and Mira.
In the hands of the sage and the lady of Luoan, the sword was as familiar as a wooden stick. This fluidity gave the Galeva who was traveling with them the illusion that the technique of using the sword was so simple and easy to learn that even a layman like him could easily master it.
But the truth is.
A porter is just a porter, and his muscles and physique are trained to carry heavy loads. You won't become a skilled swordsman the moment you hang your sword on your waist.
"Haaaa
The clever little unicorn ran quickly to Mira and Henry, while Kaleva rushed towards the soldiers with her swords in swing.
He imagined in his mind how easily his attack would split the spearhead of his opponent, and then leaned over to beat the poorly beaten skinny ruffians - the third mistake he had made, and the last one in Mira and Henry's absence.
- Ignoring the superiority of equipment and numbers.
Short and long, even for a skilled swordsman, it will be the highest level of test.
A powerful swordsman can indeed get a head start in the face of poorly trained soldiers, and beat them unilaterally.
But even if these ruffians are indeed the latter, Kaleva has nothing to do with the former.
"Assi (idiot). The defenders let out a mocking sound in the face of the young man who had begun to swing their swords indiscriminately from a distance away, believing that they were impermeable, and then simply stabbed them with their ordinary flat spears.
"Ahhh His imaginary vision of easily slashing the spearhead at close range was unattainable, the huge movement of the overswing seemed exaggerated but the speed and efficiency were simply not enough, and the young man immediately panicked, and he hurriedly began to fall backwards while continuing to swing his sword in an almost frenzied motion to try to dispel the spear.
"Pop—" The crooked blade slapped away the tip of the spear that was closer, but the soldier on the other end gripped the spear with both hands and pointed the tip of the spear at his body again with a slight adjustment.
"Ho-ho-ho-" Cold, as sharp as a venomous snake that followed her, Galeva panicked, and her breathing began to fluctuate.
It only took a few seconds for this to happen, and Mira and Henry behind him didn't even have time to get to him.
The fantasy pieces are shattered, and the real battle is very different from his imagination.
No matter how strong he is, if he doesn't know the right knowledge, he is just a big target, and even if he has a lot of physical strength, it is in vain to waste it in inefficient and just cool-looking random swinging.
He only cared about his physical superiority, blinded by the anger in his heart, subjectively ignoring the opponent's superiority in equipment and numbers.
The regular army infantry, armed with spears and cuirass helmets, no matter how untrained, was enough to crush a man who only held a talisman sword less than a meter.
Kaleva has no armor, and her weapons are inferior in length. In contrast, no matter how old and ill-fitting the armor worn by the ruffians, it eventually covered the torso and head.
"Ahh The ruffians stepped onto the bridge, and Galeva wielded his sword to no avail, instinctively holding his right hand in front of his body, causing his forearm to be cut open by the sharp spear tip.
The blood began to flow and sting, and most of the menacing appearance he had seen a few seconds ago was erased, and he was completely dispossessed at this moment—fortunately, he wasn't alone.
A "knock-knock-" voice sounded on one side, followed by Mira: "Hey!" and threw the little unicorn's coat in her saddle over the spears of the ruffians.
"Ha Sho Ka Ha Ka (Spread Out)!" the huge cloth wrapped around the spearhead, but the time it could buy was extremely limited, and the ruffians began to retreat as they drew their spears.
"Run, you guy!" the girl yelled at the stunned young man. Awakened, Galeva turned around in a hurry, still clutching the one-handed knife, blood flowing from the long wound on his right arm, soaking the hilt and making it feel sticky.
"Titus—(chick)!" The noble coat of arms from Parnila may have been able to bluff the people of Polusaro and the discerning merchants, but it would have no effect on the lowly ruffians of these social classes. They stepped directly over the horses' coats and approached with their spears in their spears.
"Tsk-" "Qiang-" Mira grabbed the reins and pulled out half a sword in one hand, but she also felt that it was a little difficult to play, although she was wearing armor, but the war horse under her was unprotected, if the horse was attacked on the bridge and went crazy, rushed to the edge and fell off the cliff, it would be ten deaths.
"Steer left—" Henry's steady voice in Avenella sounded behind him, along with a crisp "click-" sound of metal snapping into place—
"Shh
The sage pulled the trigger.
"Bang-when!!" The soldier who had received the money received a blow to the head, and his helmet immediately dented, and the concussion made the soldier feel dizzy, and he fell to the ground with a snap, and the soldiers immediately stopped moving forward and looked up at this side.
"Knock knock—" "Ha-" Mira rode back to Henry's side.
"......." the sage stood still, not riding or holding Kramer, still pointing at this side with the crossbow he had just fired.
"Crossbows! they have crossbows!" the men panicked after all, and ranged weapons were extremely threatening except for the heavily armed knights.
"It's all right, it's slow—" shouted one of them, trying to steady the morale, but before he could finish speaking, everyone saw Henry put the end of the crossbow against the belly of his Brigundy plate armor, then easily wound it with one hand, tucked it under his armpit, and pulled a crossbow bolt from the leather bag behind him and placed it.
The whole process took no more than a second, and at the same time he had another crossbow machine in his hand pointing at this side.
"Let's go, stupid!" Mira shouted again at the stunned Galeva, who was holding her sword and her horse beside the young man. "Ahh
"Tsk-" The ruffian leader with a dent in his helmet rose to his feet with the support of his companions, and the crossbow bolt brought him not only the shock in his heart, but also the loss of face, but despite his youth, he was not as impulsive as Kaleva, but remained cautiously among the friendly guards.
"Goo-" The ruffians all swallowed and looked over here.
The sage held the two light crossbows steadily, and he kept a few meters away from the other party. Although Henry could technically only fire two crossbow bolts and the ruffians would rush to the distance where they could attack him, it was obviously difficult for such a demoralized ruffian to rush forward like a daredevil's warrior when he could be killed.
They may bully others with a numerical advantage, and do things like killing. But when it comes to sacrificing, it exposes the inferiority of the miscellaneous cards.
12 people, no matter how accurate the sage's crossbow shots, could only kill two of them before they could cross the distance. But no one wanted to be the unlucky man who died, so the group of people urged each other to come forward in Suomir, but no one took the step.
"I'm—" "Shut your mouth and grit your teeth!" The pale-faced Kaleva ran to the back and immediately sat down on his feet, and was about to apologize when the girl interrupted him. Mira unsheathed her sword and grabbed the leather water bladder containing the spirits, then flipped and dismounted. Grab the spout part of the skin bladder with one hand, bite the cork with your mouth, pull it, and spit it out, and the cork tied to the hemp rope hangs naturally next to it. At the same time, her other free hand pulled a piece of sackcloth from her saddle bag.
"Woo-" Galeva closed her mouth and raised her hand in a cold sweat, and the Roan Maiden poured the liquor directly onto his forearm.
"Woo-click-knock-knock-" The young man with bruises in his temples let go of his sword because of the pain of disinfection, and slammed the wooden bridge surface again and again, the fresh wound was still gushing blood as the liquor washed it, and the blood and alcohol mixed together and flowed on the ground, and the heavy smell of alcohol covered up the smell of blood and began to fill the tense air.
"Teacher, we didn't bring honey?" Mira asked, turning back to Henry.
"Stop the bleeding first. And the sage said without looking back, and the girl nodded, and then tore the sackcloth away with a "tear--" thud.
"Uh-" She wrapped the sackcloth around it to stop the bleeding, causing Kaleva to grit her teeth again and pound the bridge. "Man, it's just a flesh wound. Mira gave him a blank look, and then quickly wrapped several bandages and tied a knot.
The blood on the forearm of the "......" still hadn't completely stopped the bleeding began to gradually ooze out, darkening the color of the bandage, and the girl frowned at all this, and then turned to look at her teacher's back.
"Looks like we'll have to, let's talk—" The ruffian with his sunken helmet said in heavily accented Lamani, and when he looked up to the other side, his emerald green eyes lit up visibly, and he smiled playfully before immediately changing his words: "Although I wanted to say this, it seems that you don't want to leave today, mercenary." ”
The relaxed and playful expressions on the faces of the soldiers who had been a little nervous returned, and Mira frowned and followed their eyes to look back at the other end of the bridge behind them, and Galeva did the same, and then her face became even paler.
"Teacher......" Luo An's girl said in a solemn tone.
"How many people. Henry didn't look back.
"A squadron" The girl looked at the soldiers on the other side of the bridge who had poked their heads out because of the movement: "For now," she added. These people are obviously all the same. Seeing that his own people, who were also defenders, had a conflict with the mercenaries, he immediately walked over with a spear.
Even a simple-minded person like Galeva would not expect to tell the new group of soldiers that these people were extorting money for tolls, and then the other party would justly protect their own side against the corrupt ruffians.
"I-I really-" The young porter was at a loss, he had indeed experienced too much for his first battle, and the physical pain and the impact on his heart had turned his already inarticulate into a complete stammer.
"You take over, and the sword lends me. Henry said this, and then slowly stepped back from the soldiers at the end of the bridge.
"Good. The girl took the light crossbow, and the ruffians of the squadron did not dare to come forward when they were pointed at by the crossbow. However, they had already surrounded the three of them with their own reinforcements, and they still seemed at ease.
Mira slowly retreated with Henry, and the sage walked straight to the Roan Maiden's steed and drew his sword. And the Luoan girl, who had retreated to Kaleva's side, stared at the ruffians more than ten meters away, her light crossbow still aiming, and spoke to the young porter without looking.
"Pick up the knife and put it back in its sheath. As she spoke, the young man was stunned for a moment, and then sat up as the white-haired girl had instructed. It's just that when he put away the knife and carried the rucksack and was about to get up again, he felt that his feet were a little weak.
"Man point. Mira glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and said that she should have felt shameless to be reprimanded like this by a girl younger and younger than herself, but he was trembling all over his body, but he couldn't say anything.
"Tsk-smack-" "Assi-Arapika (don't be a damn thing)!" the girl was a little distracted, and the ruffians at the bridge immediately tried to advance, and she fired an arrow menacingly to force them back, then pointed the crossbow that was still on her and handed it to Kaleva.
"Wind up, put the arrow on horseback, and point it at them. "Ahh The young man moved in a panic, and the moment he turned back and pointed at the soldiers, Mira also took the moment to turn her head to look to the other side.
"Can you stand firm with a backpack, and can you ride a horse?"
"Yes, yes. The Kaleva chick nodded like a peck of rice.
"Prepare to withdraw, you get on the horse first. The girl smiled at the little unicorn next to her, and the clever little one shook her head.
"How, how to withdraw?"
"Wait. Mira said.
and other signals. ”
"What signal?" asked Caleva sluggishly.
The sage, sword in one hand, walked over to the new soldiers on the other side.
And the Luoan girl stared at the soldiers in front of her with half-squinted eyes, and said word by word:
"Screams—"
"Bang-" "Nosta (raise spear)!!" There was a sudden roar among the soldiers in the loose formation at the other end of the bridge, they originally thought that the number of people would be enough to suppress the opponent and make them surrender obediently, but they didn't know that the man on the other side disappeared from view in an instant.
The idea of a wizard or something that immediately crossed their minds as the idea of a wizard and the like crossed their minds, but it wasn't until Henry reappeared that the soldiers realized that he was simply lowering his posture and charging faster than they could catch with their naked eyes.
The one-handed swing of the long sword ——!! violently shook violently the moment it hit the wooden pole, and its slashing ability was not as good as that of Kramer, and it only cut in half, but Henry's powerful brute force directly shook off the remaining part.
The spearhead landed on the bridge deck and fell from the edge to the bottom of the valley after a bullet, the sage directly killed into the enemy group, he held the sword in one hand, after cutting off the two spears, he directly smashed it with the counterweight ball on the helmet of the soldier on the right, making a "clan——!!g" sound, at the same time, the left hand reached out and choked the throat of the soldier on the left, and lifted the man who was one meter eight tall and weighed at least eighty kilograms with one hand.
"Uh-huh-" The soldier, who felt as if his throat was caught in iron tongs, widened his eyes and opened his mouth like a fish out of water, desperately trying to breathe, while Henry held a large living man as a shield and opened the other three spears behind him, and thrust forward a few more meters as the stunned soldier on the right fell to the ground.
"Asi!" a Suomir curse rang out one after another, and one of the new, slightly more trained soldiers let go of his spear, which was difficult to play at close range, and reached for the hilt of the sword at his waist, but the moment he pulled out half of it, the sage slammed the back of his hand with a counterweight ball.
"Click-" The bones on the back of the hand were shattered with a crisp sound, and the metal collision between the gauntlet of the sword and the sheath that had been knocked back made a trembling sound for a long time.
"Uhh
The hem of the armor fluttered slightly, and he lifted his left leg and curled up, then kicked steadily on the breastplate the moment the fainted soldier landed.
The "Knock ——!!" soldier's helmet fell in the impact, and his body directly knocked down several of his companions.
"Uh-uh-uh-ahh
The formation of the screaming soldiers loosened further, and our Luoan girl turned around at this point:
"Let's go!" she said, staring at Galeva riding above Henry's horse with big sparkling eyes, and the young man was stunned for a moment, and then immediately flicked the reins: "Ride!!"
"Assi!!" The soldiers were in a trance because of the tragic situation on the other side of the bridge, but they also took a new step when they saw the two of them take action. "Bang Bang!" The two crossbow bolts nailed to the ground made them stop again, and Mira and Caleva, who had turned over and hurriedly mounted their horses, and the trio of the little unicorns ran quickly towards the other side of the bridge.
"Teacher!" Mira reached out to the sage as she ran past Henry, who thrust her sword back into its sheath with unerring precision, and grabbed the wooden rod that had just been cut off.
"Boom!" he threw his long stick at the moment he got on his horse, knocking down the last soldier in the path, and then the three of them quickly passed the place at the mouth of the bridge.
"Ahhh